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  1. Re:Thing Long Term, Beware of Legacy Costs on ISO 9001-Compliant Document Control? · · Score: 1

    There is an option in the print dialogue to shrink Letter to fit on A4, and shrink A4 to fit on Letter. Legal types seem to like pdf files because they think they can't be altered.

  2. Re:Justice on PS3 Owner Refunded For Missing "Other OS" · · Score: 1

    EU law says the retailer is responsible for refunds, no matter who is to blame. It is then up to Amazon to get a refund from Sony, which I'm sure they will.

  3. Re:Justice on PS3 Owner Refunded For Missing "Other OS" · · Score: 1

    Because Amazon chose to refund him rather than face a court hearing

    He would have gone to court
    A county court judge / sheriff etc depending on juristiction would decide wether or not a refund was due

  4. Re:Tragic would be an apt way to describe it on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 1

    It would probably be better to sue the copyright holder for libel. Then they have to prove that their libelous statement was true.

  5. Re:Erm... on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 1

    It depends what you are reading. The Gardian is a left leaning rag so tends to be biased towards Labour and socialist policies. The Telegraph is often referred to as the Torygraph because it is biased towards the Tories. The Mail is a very right wing rag who's sympathies tend to be closest to the BNP. The Sun supports whoever Rupert Murdoch tells it to support. The Tories at present, but it was Labour in the past. The Independent is most popular amoungst Liberal Democrat supporters.

  6. Re:It was a farce... on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 1

    So only the very poor and the very rich can afford justice. I guess most Slashdotters are in the in-between classes that get shafted at every opportunity.

  7. Re:Yup on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 2, Informative

    Mining villages can be persuaded to vote for a party other than Labour. See Blenau Gwent for example.

  8. Re:Brits - Contact your MP and then VOTE on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If there is a Pirate Party candidate in your constituency, vote for them. If there isn't, then join the Pirate Party and offer to stand as a canditate.

  9. Not quite on Digital Economy Bill Passed In the UK · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It has to get through the House of Lords now, and there is a good chance that they will throw it out.

  10. Re:Par for the course? on Sony Update Bricks Playstations · · Score: 1

    Even if they don't, the serial on the PS3 should match the serial on the box.

  11. Re:Settlers 7 on Ubisoft DRM Causing More Problems · · Score: 1

    WOW's business model is the subscription access to the server. That's fine. It works, and some people like it, but it doesn't translate to a single player game.

  12. Re:Interestingly? on US Mobile Data Traffic Usage Exceeds Voice · · Score: 1

    The main reason Japan has smaller revenue is that it has a smaller population. It does however have more cellphones per head of population than the US. The US is about mid table in the world rankings for cellphones per head of population.

  13. Re:Interestingly? on US Mobile Data Traffic Usage Exceeds Voice · · Score: 1

    In terms of total GDP, yes. Only the EU is bigger than the US.

  14. Re:Timing Is Everything on Sex.com is Going Down · · Score: 1

    It is April fools day in some parts of the world now.

  15. Re:Stupid on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 2, Insightful

    If I want to watch the program a second time, then without DRM I can play the mp4 file saved to my hard drive, whereas with DRM, I must download it again.

  16. Re:Yup on BBC Activates DRM For Its iPlayer Content · · Score: 3, Informative

    There was until recently no DRM on the flash video versions, and that's what get_iplayer and the xbmc plugin used. FairUse4WM doesn't work in versions of Windows later than XP, and in any case there are less programs available in wmv format than flv format.

  17. Re:Stoppelman doesn't get it on Yelp Founder Says "No Extortion — Just a Misunderstood Algorithm" · · Score: 1

    People do know in general terms how credit scores work. In the UK it tends to work as follows:

    You get points for:
    Being on the electoral register
    Having a landline telephone
    Having a history of paying off previous credit agreements on time
    Being married
    Being at your current address for a number of years
    Being employed, and having been in your current job for a number of years
    Owning the property you live in

    You lose points for:
    Having a history of defaults on credit agreements, court judgements, bankruptcy, etc
    Being divorced
    Changing your address regularly

    How many points you get or lose for each depends on the lender and the loan in question, but you can still work out how to improve your score.

  18. Re:8 pounds a month on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you are looking for quality investigative reporting, I'm not sure The Times is the best place to find it. It comes from the same people that bring you Fox News. It isn't as bad as Fox News, but there are better papers out there.

  19. Re:Never, ever, ever, ever trust the government on Energy Star Program Certifies 15 Out of 20 Bogus Products · · Score: 1

    I don't know which government you work for, but in Britain, a lot of our tax pounds go on Diversity Coordinators, and Diversity Managers to manage the Diversity Coordinators, and Diversity Directors to direct the Diversity Managers. A quick search on Google would suggest that the US is just as bad.

  20. Re:8 pounds a month on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 4, Informative

    Here's one newspaper who tried it.
    http://www.observer.com/2010/media/after-three-months-only-35-subscriptions-newsdays-web-site

    It cost them $4m dollars to set up the paywall. They got 35 subscribers at $5 per week, so it would take 440 years just to recover the cost of setting up the paywall, assuming no transaction charges.

  21. Re:so, that's like $350/year (USD) ? on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 1

    Option one

    Get out your credit card, type in your card number, ccv number, billing address and 3d secure password. Set up a username and password. Remember them.

    Option two

    Visit one of the following sites for your news requirements

    news.bbc.co.uk
    www.guardian.co.uk
    www.telegraph.co.uk
    www.independent.co.uk
    news.sky.com (at least until he puts that one behind the paywall as well)

    Which do you think most people will go for?

    BBC, Guardian and Telegraph already have more readers than the Times.

  22. Re:so, that's like $350/year (USD) ? on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 1

    $2.98 per week at current exchange rates, but if you want to pay in US$, you will be charged $4, so it may be cheaper to pay in £ and swallow your banks transaction fees.

  23. Re:8 pounds a month on The Times Erects a Paywall, Plays Double Or Quits · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It isn't so much the amount involved, which is the same as buying the dead tree version, it is the fact that it is quicker to find another newspaper on the internet than it is to find your credit card and type all the details in, whereas in a newsagent, it is pretty easy to find a pound coin in your pocket and hand it over.

  24. Re:Like TV on Google Wins European Trademark Victory · · Score: 1

    Advertising and libel laws prevent that, not trademark laws. Those laws say that any comparisons with competitors have to be fair and truthful, and they get round that by not mentioning their competitors by name.

    Not all ads are like that. The supermarkets for example compare their prices with competitors and mention them by name. Because X really does charge more than Y for a particular product, they can mention it in their ads.

  25. Re:Did I miss something? on Google's New Approach For China Is To Serve From Hong Kong · · Score: 1

    The culture is different. They speak a different language for starters.

    If you go to google.com.hk, you may notice the site is in Traditional Chinese, with links near the bottom for versions in Simplified Chinese (which the mainlanders use) and English.